ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,430, issued on July 1, was assigned to IMEC vzw (Leuven, Belgium).
"Mixed metal oxide" was invented by Michiel Jan van Setten (Heverlee, Belgium), Hendrik F. W Dekkers (Tienen, Belgium), Karl Opsomer (Huise-Zingem, Belgium), Geoffrey Pourtois (Leuven, Belgium) and Gouri Sankar Kar (Leuven, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a mixed metal oxide comprises or consists essentially of: a mixture comprises or consisting essentially of 0.30 to 0.69 parts by mole Mg, 0.20 to 0.69 parts by mole Zn, 0.01 to 0.30 parts by mole of a third element selected from Al and Ga, and, either, when the third element is Al, 0.00 to 0.31 pa...